We have recently purchased a replacement floor pan for our 1970 beetle as ours was pretty sad. The new pan we bought has an IRS rear which has been all reconditioned and we now need a gearbox to suit (old pan was swing axle). What sort of money should we be looking for when buying one and more importantly does anyone have a good one for sale? We are in Ipswich but are happy to travel for a good one.
While on the gearbox topic we are pretty new to beetles (had nothing but old Fords) so this may seem like a stupid question but can we refit the swing axle rear to the IRS floor?
Thanks for any help anyone can give.
grumble ·
I am fairly sure that the swing axle box cannot be interchanged into an IRS rear,I have an unknown S bug box which to the best of my knowledge was good.I have never driven the vehicle that it came out of.I am asking $350 as is.Cheers Les
STIDUB ·
swinger box in an irs pan... dont see why not, just means the trailing arm mounts are redundant,
and i have 2x irs bug boxes sitting in ipswich, one was used in my bug, the other i wouldnt have a clue only thing i did to it was take it out as i stripped the car
BillysBug ·
Thanks for the reply, our swing axle gearbox isnt in the best condition anyway (never test drove the car on the road) but it wouldnt go into reverse which I have heard will pretty mean it will have to be rebuilt. STIDUB Would you be interested in selling one of them and if so how much?
STIDUB ·
i have a for sale thread on here somewhere, think they were $200 each or something